Speaker Bio
Eli Ben-Sasson is a Professor at Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, which he joined in 2005. He obtained his PhD from Hebrew U. in 2001 and spent time doing research at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, at MIT and at Harvard University.
Eli's research interests include theoretical computer science with an emphasis on the study of proofs and computation, implementing scalable interactive proof systems and applications of such systems to decentralized crypto-currencies. Eli is a co-inventor of the privacy preserving crypto-currency Zerocash and a co-founder of the startup behind its implementation - ZCash.